Prof. Wout Joseph receives 2025 Motohisa Kanda Award

The Motohisa Kanda Award honours the most cited paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility within the past five years.

This year’s award goes to the paper:

“Assessment of Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: Review and Future Directions”
Authors: Akimasa Hirata; Yinliang Diao; Teruo Onishi; Kensuke Sasaki; Seungyoung Ahn; Davide Colombi; Valerio De Santis; Ilkka Laakso; Luca Giaccone; Wout Joseph; Essam A. Rashed; Wolfgang Kainz; Ji Chen.

Published in 2021 (Volume 63, Issue 5), this paper has become a significant reference in the field, receiving 89 citations—the highest among all the papers published in the last 5 years (2020-2024).

Motohisa Kanda Award

The Motohisa Kanda Award, established in 2014, continues to recognise and celebrate outstanding scholarly contributions that advance electromagnetic compatibility research and its applications.

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility publishes original and significant contributions related to all disciplines of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and relevant methods to predict, assess and prevent electromagnetic interference (EMI) and increase device/product immunity.

The scope of the publication includes, but is not limited to Electromagnetic Environments; Interference Control; EMC and EMI Modeling; High Power Electromagnetics; EMC Standards, Methods of EMC Measurements; Computational Electromagnetics and Signal and Power Integrity, as applied or directly related to Electromagnetic Compatibility problems; Transmission Lines; Electrostatic Discharge and Lightning Effects; EMC in Wireless and Optical Technologies; EMC in Printed Circuit Board and System Design.